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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 12 JANUARY 2025
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- A budget is a list of things you're about to do anyway. Written down…
- Your boss hasn't taken a sick day in ten years. He has, however, given…
- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- You said "my For You page knows me so well". It knows you're awake…
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
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